I can't even get this much information on my machines. If I try to get context-sensitive help on anything that isn't part of the "core" VBA package, I just get a blank screen. No search pane, no history pane, nothing. It's not a big deal; I've been working with VBA/Office integration for years and have enough experience to make sense of the other MSDN resources, but it's still annoying...

Office's VBA editor, I'm inclined to conclude, is basically junk if you're doing anything beyond copying cells from hither and pasting them to thither. I don't mean that as a criticism of Microsoft or of the Office package in general -- VBA just seems like it's good enough for your average macro-recording-and-possibly-tweaking-hacker but completely inadequate for writing real code. I've basically given up on it. I'm currently porting my "old" VBA code to .NET and I'm much happier for it.